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My homeland is not a suitcase, and I am no traveller

Mahmoud Darwish

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Mahmoud Darwish
Age: 67 †
Born: 1941
Born: January 1
Died: 2008
Died: January 1
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Writer
Al-Birweh
M. Darwish
Mahmoud Darwish
Suitcase
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Homeland

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Where can I free myself of the homeland in my body?
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May poetry and God's name have mercy on us!
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I wish I were a candle in the darkness.
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Life defined only as the opposite of death is not life.
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